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Carney Hospital To Close By August 31

July 26, 2024

The company that operates Carney Hospital in Dorchester announced it plans to close it by August 31.

Steward Health, which is in the midst of a financial crisis and filed for bankruptcy in May, said Friday it plans to close Carney and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer.

The announcement drew dismay.

“These hospitals have long served their communities – their closures are about more than the loss of beds, doctors, and nurses. We want to assure the people of Massachusetts that we have prepared diligently for this moment and will take all available steps to help facilitate a smooth transition for impacted patients and employees,” Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said in a written statement.

C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, noted that Carney Hospital is the oldest Catholic hospital in New England, founded in 1863 with money donated by wealthy Irish immigrant Andrew Carney.

“For a century and a half, generations of Catholic families in Boston found the Carney Hospital to be a welcoming haven for quality and compassionate medical care, infused with the values, ethics and charity of the Catholic Faith,” Doyle said in a written statement Friday. “Now, due to the greed, mismanagement and self-dealing of Steward’s leadership, a legacy institution for Boston’s Catholics — part of their patrimony before there even was an archdiocese — is about to be discarded.”

 

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